Do not forget to remove NOUVEAU before restart or else you might end up with blinking cursor only.These drivers is installed by default and need to be removed:xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a

I booted up into my 3.0 kernel (dropping me to a command line), and ran sgfxi - but that didn’t quite do it...

I had to change my sources back to testing, dist-upgrade, and then run sgfxi.

That got everything going - including Cheese, which wasn’t showing the effects! So I will be sticking with Debian testing, I think. The Mint repo is a nice idea, but my (very short) experience has been that I had more trouble than the testing repos.

Thanks for posting this - I just installed Linux Debian - Kernel 3.0 - I missed this thread, good on me - so took a few hours of pulling it all together but managed to set up nvidia and compiz.

I mainly post this here for those who are interested in a slightly alternative way, as the way I read it there is a bug in http://bugs.debian.org/504692 nvidia-config and most of the approaches I found didn't combine both nvidia and compiz instructions, or work fully for me.

CheersC.

#note: this is not a script just a collection of instructions#determine your kernel versionuname -r

#confirm that you have the kernel headers installed#linux-headers-<version>apt search linux-headers-

#run script to determine if the correct nvidia driver is available on your system#http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=nvidia-versions.sh#the script can be updated with new infromation, theinstructions are at the bottom of the script#bash nvidia-versions.sh

#remove nouveau as it conflicts with nvidiasudo apt remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Thanks for the above, I managed to get my Nvidia Ion graphics working using it. However, I suggest you alter the command line commands to include "sudo apt-get" as someone new to Linux may not realise those bits are missing.

I have since updated my system and have big problems with the new 3.0 kernel. I have had to return to the 2.6 kernel in order to get a working system again. If I boot into the new kernel I end up at a tty terminal and I'm unable to get x working, despite trying to install the nvidia drivers again (I am told that they are already there). I suspect the "upgraded" system is again trying to use the nouveau drivers again (but obviously they are not there) any ideas how to fix this?

galen wrote:In future is it too much to ask for "tutorials" be actually based on a working system, non virtual setups, non best guess ?

I have personally used the instructions in this thread to install the latest nvidia driver, with success. Other users have used this guide and reported success. Don't assume a lack of quality in this tutorial.

Did you install nvidia drivers before or after update and installation of Update Pack 3? Did you follow the instructions to a tee? Did you blacklist the nouveau driver since you had problems removing it?

I didn't follow instructions and got a flashing cursor in the 3.0 kernel, but selecting the last working 2.6 kernel with grub allowed me to use synaptic and temporarily enabled 'debian experimental' to get the latest 285.05.09 nvidia-glx drivers (which had worked on this PC before). Have since uninstalled nouveau - not yet needed blacklisting!